Mr. Yan Xiaohong, Vice Minister, General Administration of Press & Publication of China and the National Copyright Administration of China.

Born in June 1955, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.

1979 - 1983: Studied in Philosophy Department, Peking University.

1983 - 1987: Worked in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Government.

1987 - 1994: Worked in the Personnel and Education Department and then Books Administration Department, General Administration of Press & Publication of China.

1994 - 2004: Deputy Director General, Director General of Books Administration Department; later Director General of the General Office and then Director General of Books Administration Department.

From May 2004: Vice Minister, National Copyright Administration of China.

From December 2006: Vice Minister, General Administration of Press & Publication of China, Vice Minister, National Copyright Administration of China.

Danielle Yeow is the Deputy Director-General of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). Her responsibilities include administering the intellectual property systems in Singapore, strengthening the legal framework, and formulating IPOS’s overall domestic and international strategic and policy directions.

Danielle is currently the President of the General Assembly of Parties of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks. She has also recently undertaken an expert mission on an intellectual property office automation project on behalf of the WIPO.

Prior to joining IPOS, Danielle was a District Judge with the Subordinate Courts, Singapore, where she was actively involved in the review of sentencing and judicial policy in areas such as securities offences, sentencing principles and evidence.

Danielle was formerly with the Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore (International Affairs Division) where she advised the Singapore Government on public international law issues including on trade and investment law as well as environmental law. She has represented Singapore in international negotiations and was an adviser to Singapore in proceedings before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea in 2005.

She is also a former Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Singapore and a former criminal prosecutor.

Danielle has an LLB (Hons) from the University of Bristol and LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge. She is admitted as a Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple (England & Wales) and admitted as Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore).

Michael Fysh was born in the USA in 1940, where his early education was undertaken. He is a British national. He attended Downside School and after a year at Grenoble University (France), read Natural Sciences (Chemistry) at Oxford (BA 1962, MA 1969). Judge Fysh was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1963, and for some 25 years practiced as a barrister in the field of Intellectual Property in England and Ireland. He was involved as junior counsel and later as senior counsel in a number of well-known cases.

He was appointed QC (Queen’s Counsel) in 1989 and QC in Northern Ireland (1990), SC (Senior Counsel) in Trinidad & Tobago (1990) and SC in Dublin in 1994 (where he was a subscribing member of the Bar Library for many years). Judge Fysh has also practiced extensively in Commonwealth countries having been called to the Bar in New South Wales and admitted to practice as an advocate in both India and Pakistan. He has frequently acted as an arbitrator in IP related matters and has lectured extensively for inter alia WIPO, Geneva, UNDP, the EPO, OHIM, Alicante and for the UK Foreign Office in various places. He also participates annually in judicial training at the Indian Institute of Judicial Studies, Bhopal.

He was author of Russell-Clarke on Registered Designs (5th Edn.) and for over 20 years was editor of the specialist Reports of Patent Cases and Fleet Street Reports. He was author of The Spycatcher Cases (The European Law Centre 1989), The IP Citator (Sweet & Maxwell 1982, and continuing) and is Editor of Butterworth’s Modern Law of Patents (2005). He has contributed articles to both British and overseas legal journals.

Judge Fysh has served on the International Relations Committee of the Bar Council. He became head of chambers at 8 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn in 1993. He is visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of IP Law, New Delhi.

In 1999, Judge Fysh was appointed a Deputy High Court judge (Chancery Division) and in 2001 was made Senior Circuit Judge having responsibility for the Patents County Court in England and Wales. He is also a judge of the Technology and Construction Court. In November 2005, Judge Fysh was awarded Hon. LLD at Wolverhampton University, England for services to IP law.

In March 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the UK Copyright Tribunal.

In July 2009, he was appointed a Member of Honor of FICPI.

Mr. Jørgen Blomqvist, a national of Denmark, is Director, Copyright Law Division, of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva. He holds the degrees of Master of Laws (1976) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Copenhagen.

Before joining WIPO he was Head of Section in the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs; Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen; and Legal Counsel and Assistant General Manager of KODA, the Danish Performing Rights Society.. From 1988 to 1992 he was member of the Legal and Legislation Committee of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).

In 1992, he joined WIPO as Senior Legal Officer. His present responsibilities include WIPO’s activities regarding progressive development of international copyright and related rights, promotion and implementation of copyright and related rights treaties administered by WIPO, legal advice to developing countries and copyright legal issues relating to territoriality and private international law.

He has published a thesis on Transfer of Copyright Ownership (in Danish) and several articles on various issues relating to copyright and related rights.

Chua Hong Koon is the Publishing Director at Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, a local publishing company focussing on Christian and general trade books. Hong Koon has more than 30 years of publishing experience. He has published many types of books, from children’s books to assessment books, reference books, textbooks, trade books, professional books, and now Christian books. Having worked in Oxford University Press and Pearson Education for many years, Hong Koon has had the opportunity to work with authors in many countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia, India, USA, UK, Mauritius etc.

Hong Koon is an Exco member of the Singapore Book Publishers Association, and he chairs the Copyright Sub-Committee. He has a Science degree and also a Law degree.

Triena Noeline Ong is President of the Singapore Book Publishers Association 2008-2010. She is also the Managing Editor and Head of ISEAS Publishing, the largest publisher of academic books on Southeast Asia, focusing on politics, economics and social issues. Triena has a BA (Languages) and Dip.Ed from Sydney University, and an MBA (Marketing & Finance) from Leicester University, UK.

Her publishing experience in Asia spans more than 35 years, ranging from general books, textbooks, trade books, and encylopaedia to academic books and scholarly journals, both print and electronic. She serves on numerous committees including the Media & Communications Manpower, Skills & Training Council of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and is Vice-President of the ASEAN Book Publishers Association.

Frank Rittman is the Vice President, General Counsel and Deputy Managing Director, Asia-Pacific for the Motion Picture Association.

Mr. Rittman joined the MPA in 2001 as its Far East and Australasia Director for commercial and legislative affairs and was promoted to Vice President in 2003. Following the amalgamation of MPA’s regional operations in 2004, and prior to his appointment as Counsel, he was also responsible for anti-piracy operations in a number of key designated markets.

He has represented MPA throughout the region in a number of legislative and commercial initiatives by providing governments with written and oral testimony on a variety of issues. Mr. Rittman also supervises MPA’s civil litigation and coordinates support for criminal prosecutions throughout Asia. Based in Singapore, he works closely with the association’s President and Managing Director on the determination and execution of regional strategic policy and associated objectives.

Mr. Rittman was previously Vice President for International Affairs at the National Music Publishers’ Association and The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. During his twelve year tenure at NMPA/HFA he represented the American songwriting and music publishing industry in a variety of international constituencies and industry negotiations throughout the world.

A native New Yorker, he also served as the Director of Contracts and Copyrights for the Macmillan Publishing Company. An attorney admitted to practice before the New York State and Federal District courts, he is a graduate of New York Law School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Denver.

Dr Stanley Lai is Head of Intellectual Property & Technology. Stanley practises corporate and commercial litigation as well as intellectual property and information technology law, with a particular emphasis on e-commerce transactions, telecommunications regulatory compliance, intellectual property and technology litigation, licensing (including open-source licensing), franchising and on-line and off-line enforcement against piracy and counterfeiting. He regularly advises a large group of local and foreign clients on branding strategy, trade mark portfolio management and trade mark dilution and re-branding. Stanley's practice has also extended to advising bio-medical companies on compliance issues and he has delivered and written papers on the patenting of the life sciences. He also maintains an active onshore and offshore litigation practice and is a well-known specialist for dispute resolution and management in the fields of trade marks, patents and copyright.

Stanley is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Law Faculty and Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Singapore. He also sits on the panel of adjudicators for the resolution of domain name disputes under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. He has been appointed as an independent director of Singapore Tech Engineering Ltd (SGX-listed) and ST Aerospace Ltd. He also serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore. He is also a member of the Professional Affairs Committee (of the Singapore Academy of Law) and currently serves in various Chapters that have been formed under this committee.

Stanley has published extensively on the topic of intellectual property and information technology law, as well as written articles for a number of journals and legal publications. He authored a book entitled The Copyright Protection of Computer Software in the United Kingdom (Hart Publishing, 2000). His loose-leaf work, the ‘Intellectual Property’ Volume of Singapore Precedents & Forms (LexisNexis, 2005) was published in February 2005. He also contributed to the Singapore section of the Encyclopedia of International Commercial Litigation (Kluwer Law International, 2009) and published an article entitled “Securitise your IP Rights in Asia - Trends and Future Expectations” in Managing IP (Euromoney Legal Media Group, 2009).

Stanley graduated from the University of Leicester with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1992. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1993. He obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1994 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1995. Stanley then commenced his PhD research at the University of Cambridge in the field of technology law and computer software copyright and completed his doctorate in three years. He is the first Singapore-born lawyer to have been conferred a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill, he was a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology department at another leading law firm in Singapore.

Mr. Ang is the Regional Director and Regional Counsel of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) for the Asia-Pacific region. CISAC is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organisation whose objective is the protection and advancement of the economic and moral interests of intellectual creators worldwide.

As CISAC’s representative for the Asia-Pacific region since 1989, Mr. Ang has helped in the creation and management of collective administration organisations in a number of countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei and the Philippines. In the course of his work, he has also to constantly, on behalf of authors, composers and publishers, liaise with governments with regard to the enactment and amendment of copyright laws. He also lectured widely throughout the Asia-Pacific region on copyright issues.

Mr. Ang holds an honors degree in law from the National University of Singapore as well as a Master of Laws from the University of London where he specialised in commercial and intellectual property laws. Prior to joining CISAC, he was in legal practice in Singapore.

He has also assisted IFFRO in their efforts to establishing collective management organisations in the Asia region. He is currently an independent Director of the Copyright, Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore (CLASS) Ltd, a reprographic rights organisation created in Singapore in October 1999.

In his private capacity, Mr. Ang is Co-General Editor of the Asia Intellectual Property Reports (AIPR), a regional law report of cases on copyrights, trademarks, patents and related intellectual property rights published by Butterworths. He also sits on the Management Committee of the Singapore Police Association of National Servicemen and on the Executive Committee of the Woodlands Wellington Football Club, one of 12 professional football clubs established in Singapore.

Susanna H.S. LEONG is an Associate Professor at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore and is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Susanna received her LL.B (Hons) from National University of Singapore and her LL.M (with Merit) from University College London, University of London. She teaches business related law courses such as contract, sale of goods and intellectual property to undergraduate and graduate business students. Her research interests are in intellectual property and technology-related laws. She has published in Journal of Business Law, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law (IIC), European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), International Journal of Law and Information, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and several other international and local academic journals. Susanna is the Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies Office, NUS Business School and the former Academic Director of the NUS-PKU International MBA program. She is a Senior Fellow at the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore. She is also a member of The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre’s Domain Name Panel and a member of The Regional Centre for Arbitration, Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL) Panel.

Mr. Benoît Machuel, a France national, has been General Secretary of the International Federation of Musicians (FIM) since September 2002.

Before that, he has been a professional musician for twenty years, playing the cello in the major French symphonic orchestras, and giving chamber music concerts in several countries, either as a cellist or as a gambist. He also worked as an Artistic Director for French CD labels dedicated to classical and contemporary music.

Between 1995 and 2002, he has been a national representative of SNAM, the French Musician Union.

Mr. Machuel holds two Master’s degrees, in Computer Sciences and in Business Administration.

Scot has a Master of Laws in Information Technology, Communications and Media Law from the University of New South Wales and a Master of International Business from the University of Sydney,as well as a Graduate Diploma in EU, UK and US Copyright Law at King’s College London. He worked as a lawyer for a while, then as a Legal Officer at the Australian Copyright Council responsible for national seminar programmes. His current position as Director of International Relations for APRA/AMCOS involves dealing with copyright societies around the world and maximising revenues from abroad for member composers and copyright owners. He is on the Asia-Pacific Committee of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC) which has a particular focus of developing music copyright infrastructure in the region, he is the Asia pacific representative on the CISAC Legal and Legislative Committee and is on the Management Committee of the Copyright Society of Australia.

Mr. Darusman, a national of Indonesia, had previously lived in Yugoslavia, Mexico, the former Soviet Union and occasionally in Switzerland. Joined WIPO in April 2001, as a Consultant. Until 2001, he was the General Manager of the Indonesian Collective Management Organization (KCI), a position which he held since the establishment of the organization in 1990. He was also the Secretary General of The Indonesian Musicians Foundation (YAMI).

He is an economist graduate (Doctorandus) from the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia, and from 1982 to 1985 was a researcher and teaching as assistant Professor at the Faculty. From 1985 to1986 he worked as a banker at Citibank and in 1987 he entered into the music production and recording business. From 1986 to 1991 he served as Director to the Indonesian Guild of Composers. From 1994 to 1996 he was appointed a member of the Indonesian National Copyright Council by presidential decree. He served as Director of the Indonesian Musicians Cooperative (KOSMINDO), a small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) cooperative with the task of seeking venture capital for artist-entrepreneurs. At the same period Mr. Darusman was also an active member of the Anti-Piracy Coalition of the Indonesian copyright industries.

Mr. Darusman was previously a musician and is still an active composer. His songs are performed in Indonesia as well as in neighboring countries. He is based in Geneva with his wife and three children.

Mr Ang I-Ming is the Director of the Legal Policy and International Affairs Department which stewards and facilitates the formulation and development of national IP policy, ensuring that national IP laws remain relevant and also represents Singapore's interests in IP matters at various international fora and during treaty/trade agreement negotiations.